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uhhello Posted August 14, 2022 Share Posted August 14, 2022 (edited) 12 minutes ago, ClearedHot said: We pre-po'd a lot to a kurdish FOB in the hay days of ISIS and Mosul. We'd be sitting around their bling'd out chow hall eating french fries and orange fanta on fancy china while they would all have their flip phones out showing their latest "coup" videos 🙂 It was great. Edited August 14, 2022 by uhhello 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arg Posted August 14, 2022 Share Posted August 14, 2022 14 hours ago, pawnman said: Pornhub is a Canadian company. So they'll miss by a few hundred miles. Posting this for a friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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TreeA10 Posted August 14, 2022 Share Posted August 14, 2022 We did all that deconfliction stuff in regard to artillery doing CAS in the Hawg. Then I ended up sentenced to be an ALO with an armor battalion. Watching a night live fire exercise and seeing the high altitude ricochets from 120mm main gun rounds, 30mm chain guns, TOW missiles, and God knows what else high speed metal, I came to the conclusion deconfliction was a nice idea but wishful thinking for those of us that operated in the weeds. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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FourFans Posted August 15, 2022 Share Posted August 15, 2022 (edited) 10 hours ago, TreeA10 said: We did all that deconfliction stuff in regard to artillery doing CAS in the Hawg. Then I ended up sentenced to be an ALO with an armor battalion. Watching a night live fire exercise and seeing the high altitude ricochets from 120mm main gun rounds, 30mm chain guns, TOW missiles, and God knows what else high speed metal, I came to the conclusion deconfliction was a nice idea but wishful thinking for those of us that operated in the weeds. I got the lovely joy of a go-around at Tarin Kot one bright evening in AFG. Turns out that firing range off the departure end was no joke. Got to watch multiple items riciochet flying off the (whatever the i'msureitwasn'taBMP) target on either side of us...and 2 items THROUGH our aircraft. Yeah...they never talk about what happens AFTER all that led lands on target. Big sky theory... MX wasn't happy about it...but we brought all 8 of those tails home with combat patches and hail damage waivers. Thank you Mr Lockheed for the 2.5 safety factor. Writeup: Missed approach followed by 'merica penetrating our aircraft. NSTR fun fact: This happened 2 days after my profile picture was taken. Edited August 15, 2022 by FourFans130 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Biff_T Posted August 16, 2022 Share Posted August 16, 2022 7 hours ago, TreeA10 said: How bad are things that you loose a sock? Somewhere there is a crew trying to find their boom operator. I think I woke up like that a few times. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TreeA10 Posted August 16, 2022 Share Posted August 16, 2022 31 minutes ago, Biff_T said: Somewhere there is a crew trying to find their boom operator. I think I woke up like that a few times. I was trying to fill a few Hawgs for a midnight/early morning tasking in Kuwait, had a few missing pilots, and did some line of sight scheduling to make the launch. Later, with the sun coming up, I'm walking back to my trailer only to find one of the missing walking towards me. I ask, "Where the hell were you!". He replied, "Jail." Well, turns out there were some scantily clad Fillipino flight attendants, a swimming pool and, yes, alcohol was involved. Later, on their drive back home, due to some misunderstandings regarding oil field security and procedures therein, the Kuwaiti army and the Kuwaiti Air Force Security Police got involved. Nobody said nothing to anyone and nothing came of it. Funny as hell story looking back. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FourFans Posted August 16, 2022 Share Posted August 16, 2022 49 minutes ago, TreeA10 said: I was trying to fill a few Hawgs for a midnight/early morning tasking in Kuwait, had a few missing pilots, and did some line of sight scheduling to make the launch. Later, with the sun coming up, I'm walking back to my trailer only to find one of the missing walking towards me. I ask, "Where the hell were you!". He replied, "Jail." Well, turns out there were some scantily clad Fillipino flight attendants, a swimming pool and, yes, alcohol was involved. Later, on their drive back home, due to some misunderstandings regarding oil field security and procedures therein, the Kuwaiti army and the Kuwaiti Air Force Security Police got involved. Nobody said nothing to anyone and nothing came of it. Funny as hell story looking back. Ah, yes. We all miss Rainman. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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brabus Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 (edited) BQZip’s mom…like a golf ball through a garden hose. Edited August 19, 2022 by brabus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Standby Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 My brother sent me this…which one of you RIOs is this? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimNtexas Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 (edited) That’s EWO to you squid! That’s the Ahole who got the plate I wanted! Edited August 20, 2022 by JimNtexas 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Biff_T Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 10 hours ago, JimNtexas said: That’s EWO to you squid! That’s the Ahole who got the plate I wanted! Shut up Nav! Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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